Knowledge is closed (under entailment) if we know every proposition entailed by a known proposition. Epistemic closure is central to skepticism, since the truth of everyday facts entail that skepticism is false. Various definitions of knowledge (for example, counter factual accounts) thus violate epistemic closure as a response to skepticism.
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